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Snow sifted down upon the Alban and the Sabine hills, one night last week; and when a pink dawn came Pope Pius XI was seen to look out early from his palace window at the pinky snow...
Seldom enough is such a treat vouchsafed to the Supreme Pontiff; for it seldom snows in Rome, and since 1870 no Pope has left the Vatican. Last week, however, came joyous confirmation of the news (TIME, Jan. 14) that Pope Pius will soon cease to be "the Prisoner of the Vatican," self-cooped in his own palace because of a quarrel with the Italian Government...
Thus, as Pope Pius XI peered out at the pinky snow, he could look forward to leaving the Vatican next winter should he so choose. He might even go to Switzerland for a little decorous tobogganing...
...extending southward down the River Tiber as "The Papal State"; 2) An indemnity of one billion lire ($52,631,600) will be paid by the Italian Treasury to the Papal State, in compensation for lands seized from the Holy See in 1870. It was learned, last week, that Pope Pius originally wanted four billion lire. Concerning the limits of the new State, the Holy Office intimated that it would encompass not only the environs of the Vatican but the sumptuous Roman Palazzo Doria-Pamphili-a storehouse of priceless art treasures-and also the present mansion of U. S. Public Utilities...
Should a concordat be signed in the indicated sense, Pope Pius XI would be free to emerge from the Vatican and might even tour the U. S., as did King Albert of the Belgians. Once more there might be belligerent Papal troops, and a revival of the Church Militant in its non-Catholic connotation?i.e., a political state ruled by the Pope in an absolute capacity. Presumably, however, the neutrality of the Papal State would be even more studied and scrupulous than Belgium...